SPN 5:08

[oselle]

I don't really know what to say about this week's episode. I laughed a lot at all the show parodies and I'm sure everyone involved had a fun time making this one. My own personal favorite moment was Jensen doing the medical side-effects voiceover on the herpes commercial. His voice is just far, far too sexy for warnings about diarrhea. I mean, he almost makes it sound like something you'd want to get. Ooh, baby...diarrheaaaaaahh...

But it seems like every single episode since "The End" (including next week's offering) has been kind of gimmicky and jokey. Sure they try to slip in some serious stuff, but it gets buried under all the yuks. What stood out about this week's episode? The serious part about Gabriel or the riffs on Grey's Anatomy and CSI? What stood out about last week's episode besides Old!Dean is funny? And then before that we had Paris Hilton, and whoopee cushions and next week we've got some self-referential tomfoolery about fandom, which I may skip altogether because you know how I feel about that stuff.

They usually slip in at least a couple of funny episodes per season but next week's episode will mark a string of 5 episodes since "The End" that have either been completely or partially silly. And the "serious" parts of these episodes haven't even been working for me...the Trickster was really the angel Gabriel all along? Bzuh? Sam and Dean were "always" meant to be Lucifer and Michael's vessels? Double-bzuh? What about Azazel and the psychic kids contest? What was the point of all that if Sam was "always" the one? And wasn't Azazel supposed to be Lucifer's enemy? Or was he on Lucifer's side? Or does it even matter? Did it ever matter?

Seriously (no pun intended), I want them to quit fooling around. I like my laffs just as much as the next gal but you can't give us something like "The End" and then crank out 5 consecutive episodes that feel more like crackfic than the show. Unless they're getting all the hilarity out of the way so we can get down to business in the latter half of the season. That would be cool.

ETA: Okay, I did laugh at the "prettyboy angel" crack. Who couldn't?

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[oselle.livejournal.com]

I know, a lot of people enjoyed it and I found some of it funny but I'm just tired of funny and I'd like the show to get on with the story.